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PAGDATING NG KANYANG PAGBABALIK
MALACHI 4:1-6
1 “Surely the day is coming; it will
burn like a furnace. All the
arrogant and every evildoer will be
stubble, and the day that is coming
will set them on fire,”
MALACHI 4:1-6
1 says the LORD Almighty. “Not a
root or a branch will be left to them.
MALACHI 4:1-6
2 But for you who revere my
name, the sun of righteousness will
rise with healing in its rays. And you
will go out and frolic like well-fed
calves.
MALACHI 4:1-6
3 Then you will trample on the
wicked; they will be ashes under the
soles of your feet on the day when I
act,” says the LORD Almighty.
MALACHI 4:1-6
4 “Remember the law of my servant
Moses, the decrees and laws I gave
him at Horeb for all Israel.
MALACHI 4:1-6
5 See, I will send the prophet
Elijah to you before that great and
dreadful day of the LORD comes.
MALACHI 4:1-6
6 He will turn the hearts of the
parents to their children, and the
hearts of the children to their
parents; or else I will come and
strike the land with total
destruction.”
God’s got four things on his mind,
heaven and hell, the Bible,
repentance and men.
The Last Day is the Day of
Judgment.
It’s ultimately regarding the second
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
resurrection of the dead, the
judgment of all people into their
eternal fate, reward in God’s
presence or punishment in the
presence of Jesus
Everyone will give an account to the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Everyone will bow their head and
bend their knee to the Lord Jesus
Christ, some for eternal salvation,
others for eternal damnation, and
that’s what the Old Testament
means speaking of the Day of the
Lord.
And so the Day of the Lord is the
best day for the believer and the
worst day for the unbeliever.
If you are here and you are not a
Christian, I need you to know this:
you are going to hell.
You might say, “That’s not a very
loving thing to say.”
Here’s the good news: you don’t
have to go to hell.
The bad news is right now if you
don’t know the Lord Jesus Christ, if
you’ve not turned from sin and
trusted in him and accept him as
your Savior and Lord, your eternal
fate is now destined for hell, the
conscious, painful torments of hell.
The reason that God is so emphatic
about this throughout Scripture but
particularly here in Malachi is, we get
so preoccupied with the present that
we forget to anticipate the eternal.
So he likens hell to a fire, to burning.
He’s using this language, “Burning
like an oven and also ablaze.”
He’s talking here about conscious
torment.
The burning in hell is a supernatural
burning.
Isaiah 66:24
24 “And they will go out and look on
the dead bodies of those who
rebelled against me; the worms that
eat them will not die,
Isaiah 66:24
24 “the fire that burns them will not
be quenched, and they will be
loathsome to all mankind.”
But you need to know this: no one is
getting away with anything.
Here’s the truth: we don’t know how
long that season is.
So I would encourage you with a
sense of urgency to consider your
own fate.
“Well, we know they’re in a better
place because they died.” It takes
more than your death to go to a
better place.
It takes the death of Jesus in your
place to go to a better place.
See, for the non-Christian, this life is
as close to heaven as they ever get.
For the Christian, this is as close to
hell as we ever get.
Upon dying, it gets worse for the
non-Christian.
It gets better for the Christian.
So he not only speaks of hell, he also
speaks of heaven
Jesus was risen from death and our
bodies will be risen from death like
that, and the curse will be lifted.
There’ll be a new heaven, new earth,
New Jerusalem.
Our picture of heaven should be
what this earth was intended to be
before sin invaded it and corrupted
it.
He says that heaven will be like that
and our glorified, resurrected,
perfected bodies, it will be like the
sunshine of a new day.
He also says that that day will come
with healing.
No more doctors.
No more hospitals.
No more surgeons.
No more chemotherapy.
No more physical therapy.
No more wheelchairs.
No more canes.
No more walkers.
No more prescriptions.
It’s almost hard to conceive of that
world.
Sin brings death.
And because Jesus conquers death,
he brings life.
Healing, healing, spiritual healing,
emotional healing, physical healing
in totality for all of God’s people
forever.
What will that day be like for you
when the Lord Jesus comes back,
when he calls you out of his grave as
he came out of his grave?
Are you going to hell?
Are you going to heaven?
Are you going to suffer forever or be
blessed forever?
Will you be like one who is living in
a never-ending blazing furnace or
like one who is healed with sunshine
on their face and joy in their heart
and a sweetness in their step?
If you’ve not turned from sin and
trusted in Jesus Christ who is God
become a man, lived without sin,
died on the cross in your place for
your sins and rose as your Savior,
then you are destined for hell instead
of heaven.
So what the law does?
The law is God’s Word, and it is
God giving us his standard.
God is holy, God is righteous, God
is good.
So the law sets the standard.
We judge ourselves by his standard.
At any point that we fall short of his
standard, it’s sin.
This leads to condemnation.
This leads to judgment.
This leads to death.
So we should trust in him and give
our sin to him so that he will pay the
penalty that we should have instead
paid
and that’ll be God’s mercy and grace
and then his justice and his love will
kiss at the cross where Jesus dies in
our place because Jesus fulfills the
law,
never sins at all, goes to the cross for
all of us lawbreakers so that he might
die in our place that we might live
with his righteousness.
And so the prophets are always
preaching repentance.
Turn from sin, trust in Jesus.
There’s only two guys in the Old
Testament who didn’t die,
Enoch and Elijah.
There’s only two guys in the Old
Testament who didn’t die,
Enoch and Elijah.
Hebrews 9:27
27 Just as people are destined to die
once, and after that to face
judgment
Matthew 11:13-14
13 For all the Prophets and the Law
prophesied until John.
14 And if you are willing to accept it,
he is the Elijah who was to come.
JOHN 1:21
21 They asked him, “Then who are
you? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
LUKE 1:17
17 And he will go on before the Lord, in
the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn
the hearts of the parents to their
children and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the righteous—to make ready
a people prepared for the Lord.”
Elijah was a prophet filled with the
Holy Spirit.
He had a successor, a guy named
Elisha.
It’s different men, but it’s the same
power of the Holy Spirit working
through them anointing and
appointing them for similar
prophetic ministry to preach and to
call people to repentance of sin and
receiving of Jesus.
LUKE 9:30
30 Two men, Moses and Elijah,
appeared in glorious splendor, talking
with Jesus.
Malachi is the last book of the Old
Testament and prepares us for the
coming of Jesus.
Revelation is the last book of the
New Testament preparing us for the
second coming of Jesus.
JAMES 5:17
17 Elijah was a human being, even as we
are. He prayed earnestly that it would
not rain, and it did not rain on the land
for three and a half years.
So before Jesus came the first time,
the Holy Spirit empowered John the
Baptizer to continue the ministry of
Elijah.
But Elijah is typified as one of the
great prophets because he preached
repentance, even though his life was
in danger and he God spared his life.
Elijah’s a fearless man.
The only way you become a fearless
man is when you’re filled with the
Holy Spirit.
This is what the prophets do, and
this is what Elijah did, and this is
what I think Elijah will be doing in
the end:
Preaching the repentance of sin.
When it comes to repentance, we
need to repent of our rebellion and
our religion.
For some of you, the sin that God
wants to deal with is rebellion
In addition, we need to repent of our
religion.
Religion is where we don’t see our
sin, we only see their sin.
It’s where we want people to change,
but we don’t want to change, where
we don’t want to be humble, we want
to be proud.
We don’t want to be under God’s
authority; we want to exercise
authority like we’re God telling
everyone else what to do and making
and enforcing rules that God never
made.
You come to Jesus just as you are
and change.
You come to Jesus as you are, but
you don’t stay as you were.
God is tolerant in that he welcomes
us to his Son as we are, but he
expects repentance so that we change
by his grace, and repentance is
always met with resistance.
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You look at all the social problems,
the ails and the evils, God says, “I got
an answer, - Dad.”
Dad can do what institutions and
governments and organizations
cannot do.
The family is the first government.
The father is the first leader.
God holds the men responsible for
their family for their legacy.
The number-one thing that is
needed for social change is men to
love their own children to be good
fathers and for children to honor,
listen to, obey, love their dad.
Is this still an issue, issue in your life?
How will a father’s heart change by
the power of the Holy Spirit?
How will a child’s heart toward their
father change by the power of the
Holy Spirit?
How do you know that the Holy
Spirit is at work?
If you see different kinds of men in
the church than you see in the
culture, you know that the Holy
Spirit is at work in the men and the
men are yielding to the Holy Spirit.
How do you know that the Holy
Spirit is at work in children?
One of the evidences of the work of
the Holy Spirit is the condition and
nature of the family, particularly the
relationship between the father and
the children.
This is the big idea of legacy.
It starts with fathers and faith flows
through generations of the family.
Well, it starts with the fact that God
is a father.
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There’s good news for you.
Now, one of my goals at FCC is that
the men would all have a father’s
heart, the Father’s heart.
Developing a father’s heart starts by
knowing God as Father.
You can’t become a father, like the
Father, unless you know the Father.
It’s coming to know God as Father,
talking to God as Father, relying on
God as Father as early as possible in
your life.
Practically what this means is, you
grow up to honor your Heavenly
Father, to honor your earthly father,
to obey your earthly father and to
forgive your earthly father because
your earthly father is sinful and will
err.
Men, the most important decision
you make is who’s your God.
The second most important decision
is who you marry, and that decision
has generations of implication, it just
does, for good or bad.
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I need you men to have the father’s
heart, not only for your family, but
our church family.
The only way what we’re doing
succeeds is if the men have the
father’s heart.
1 Cor. 4:15
15 Even if you had ten thousand
guardians in Christ, you do not have
many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I
became your father through the gospel.
Malachi ends perfectly because it’s
God’s word and God’s final word,
and God’s final word to the men is
you’re very important.
You’re very needed.
The Father is calling forth fathers,
that the Father is calling forth fathers.
And so God’s final word and God’s
answer is more men with a father’s
heart.
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